I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
Maria Pappadimos: They're burning Mandrakos in punishment.
They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.
It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.
There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'
At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion ...
The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could deny to be a matter of fact, when his attention was drawn to the evidence; and the occurrence of great geolo...
Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the doctrine of evolution, an...
From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mer...
Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dream of home, a wish whose attraction depends upon its remaining at the level of a wish. The movies bring the boys back but stop as ...
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do ...
...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of years ago and of which we know nothing; every re...
O my God, how does it happen in this poor world that you are so great and yet nobody finds you, that you call so loudly and yet nobody hears you, that you are so near and yet nobody feels you, that you give yourself to everybody and yet nobody knows ...
